UTD LILAC Lab

🎨We loved meeting so many wonderful families at the AUsome Moms Resource Fair last Saturday! Our team at the LILAC Lab enjoyed sharing how our research aims to support the many different paths to language development and communication growth in all children.

✨Thank you to everyone who came by to chat, play, and celebrate neurodiversity with us!

📚Curious about our latest studies or want to get involved with our research? Click the link in our bio to learn more!

📣 Love our work? Join our team!!

The LILAC Lab is now recruiting undergraduate research assistants for Summer and Fall 2026!

Interested in gaining research experience in parent-child interactions and language development in young children? We would love to have you join our team!

Learn more about us in the link in our bio or apply via the UTD Research Portal.

📅 Application deadline: April 3rd

🎉 We are so proud of our lab director, Dr. Pumpki Lei Su (), for delivering an early-career keynote at the Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA) this past week. What an incredible milestone for our lab!

🎙️Her talk, *“From Processing to Learning from Language Input: Parentese and Language Learning in Autism,”* brought together a decade of work spanning her dissertation, collaborative projects, and research from the LILAC Lab. The keynote highlighted that children are not passive recipients of language input. Through their attention, vocalizations, and engagement, children influence the type and quality of language they hear, which in turn supports learning. To support learning, we need to consider not only what input children receive, but also how children’s own behaviors elicit, modify, and sustain that input over time.

💜 We are grateful to the MoLA community for this opportunity and excited to continue building on this line of research!

The LILAC Lab wishes you a prosperous year of the Horse! 🏮 马年行大运🧧
Here’s a fun sensory friendly activity for you and your toddler to try! For more instructions and to watch a demonstration, visit sciencebuddies.org.